Apparently the alpha installer doesnt like my netowrking setup, though Im not entirely sure why.At that point in the install script it stopped being able to see the internet, and now its hosedin a semi-installed state.

ATM I have a router that is connected to the internet and a USB ether port that is connectedto the router. The other port on the box is xonected to a private net with just the MCE boxand my HomeRunHD attached to it.

I cant imagine why the router would be a problem as its serving DHCP to the MCE box on thatport and aught not to look terribly different then beign connected directly to the ISP. I dont want to tkae the router out of the loop until I have the MCE box up and running ebcausemy wife depends on that for her internt connection and I dont want my MCE experiments toimpact her.

I had to edit the mce_wizard_data-double_nic.sh install file and swap eth0 with eth1. If you don't do this first (before running all the scripts and getting errors) then that file will already be copied to the /tmp folder and won't be recopied. I'm pretty sure it propagates into other config files, too, (beyond /etc/network/interfaces) so it's easier to make that change first.

I am using one of the now old, reference platforms, an Asus M2NPV-VM with 1.5GB ram, 1.3GB used, 10% of the H/D used kernel 2.6.27-14.

I'm on a 768KB download network.

It took as few hours, well several, until I had complete all 12 steps and went through the video wizard for screen setup and media etc. I added the webdt-366 and can look at the various screens, media, security etc,

The problem is the H/D has been running continuously for over 12-hours now with occasional download activity. Top shows OrbiterGL at around 78% and Photo+screen_sa at around 70%.

Not sure why its running the H/D hard for over 12 hours and downloading when a lot of that happened before the final boot and the GUI setup.

Any ideas ?

ADD: 09:04EST 21Jul09 - The hard drive is still running hard.It's over 21 hours since the 12 step install and video wizard completion. H/D is now at 20%, 99.93MB downloaded in the last 16-hrs.. Is this normal ? The hard disk is being pounded relentlessly. I'm getting large download spikes at 08:50 and 21:00 EST.

While I can't specifically comment on troubleshooting steps to figure out what's wrong, I can say that I've installed various versions of the alpha about 8 times and on average with my 1mbps internet connection it took about 3 hours on average start to finish.